Integration with Netatmo Energy (thermostat/valves)?

[giuliomagnifico]

Hi,
I’m using this exporter and it’s great, thanks for it.

I’m also using the Netatmo smart thermostat and is very useful to integrate both services in one dashboard.

At the moment I’m using this exporter for the Energy: https://github.com/tipok/netatmo_energy_exporter

but it’s not well made, the queries are using some weird names, it’s hard to identify the correct sensors and call to it, etc…
well I’ve done anyway but -since I know nothing of Golang- I was wondering if you can integrate this code into your exporter. I don’t think it should be complicated and this would result in one exporter for all the Netatmo service.

Obviously if you don’t have time, doesn’t matter.

Thanks anyway :)

[xperimental]

Good idea, I do not have any of these thermostats to test though, so this will be purely based on the documentation...

I think I'll tackle this after the authentication change is released.

[giuliomagnifico]

I have the thermostat only at the moment but surely there are people who own also the valves.

Yes you can use the code already written (that I’m using and is working fine) plus the docs. If you open a beta branch or whatever I can help you, unfortunately I’m not good in Go language.

Thanks anyway.

[giuliomagnifico]

Hi @xperimental just to update this post, now the old netatmo energy exporter doesn't work anymore due to the autenthication changes from Netatmo, but when you generate the access and refreshtoken via Netatmo dev web page, you can also specify to read the thermostat API

So I think you have only the add to your exporter the parameters to read the thermostat and valves and it should work.

If you want I can test it, if you make something like a new branch I will clone into it and try to test it.

Thanks anyway

[xperimental]

Yes, reading data other than weather will require new scopes.

I have not looked at the API docs for this yet, it's probably also a different endpoint.

We can have a look, once the authentication situation is sorted 🙂

[giuliomagnifico]

@xperimental thanks for the reply, I have no idea of Go language but if there are only some new scopes and a new endpoint I can try to modify your exporter adding the new scopes/endopoint and compiling it. So I can help without rely at all on your work.

If you have a link to the documentation some little tricks let me know, anyway we have some months before we will use again the thermostat fortunately 😂 (I live in Italy: 45°C now)

[DEEJCUK]

https://github.com/tipok/netatmo_energy_exporter
this project reads thermostat and TRV data but its stopped working as it seem the auth flow changed again, any chance your project can implement the thermostat readings ? it would be super nice to get the data from one exporter

[xperimental]

Thanks @DEEJCUK . The project was already mentioned in this thread.

I know it's been well over a year, but I can see that other data is the most requested feature for the exporter. I hope that one of the next days will be a "private open-source projects" day again.

[mighq]

I am willing to do some work on this. If you have idea about how things should be structured, or already have some code, please share it in the branch. I will post PR, when I have something.

IMO this project is better prepared for adding energy support than tipok one. So thanks for good work so far.

[xperimental]

Hey @mighq . Thanks for the offer 👍

I did not have enough time to progress on this issue over the last months. The main issues I see for this feature:

• identify which metrics make sense to export
• check how to integrate this into the authorization flow (make it selectable which data you want)
• either integrate the new metrics into the existing collector or split the logic into two separate collectors for each category

edit: But just to make this clear: This project is not abandoned, I just need to find time to actually make some progress. Which I hope will happen again, but I have learned not to give an estimate in days or weeks (see last message 😉 ).

[daviddanko]

@xperimental @mighq, any update on this please?
I can't wait to start using this. I'm sick and tired of renewing the tokens every other day for the tipok container.

[xperimental]

Good news, I actually started looking into this now. It has been mostly looking at the documentation for now and thinking about how to structure this in the exporter, so there's not much concrete to look at yet. But it's a start.

[giuliomagnifico]

Hello, in the end I forked and modified the original repo from tipok, now it works perfectly with the refresh token. The original version has many problems and stops working due to authentication errors at every reboot. With my modification, it always works.

If useful, it's here: https://github.com/giuliomagnifico/netatmo_energy_exporter (maybe you can check the API or the metrics)

I have no problems using two exporters. Yes, obviously having everything in one would be more convenient, but I tried to merge both and always had issues. At least this way, everything works.

[daviddanko]

Thanks, I'm familiar with it. The lack of containerization is my only issue with that.